Julia Belluz – Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism at Vox.com

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• Format Videos
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Self-directed learning
• EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?
• Duration >15 mins
• Difficulty Advanced

Key Concepts addressed

• 3-2a Do the outcomes measured matter to you?
• 1-1b Dramatic treatment effects are rare
• 1-2c Association is not the same as causation

Details

Jullia Beluz, a Canadian journalist speaks at ‘Evidence Live’ 2016 about the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and Evidence-Based Medicine together, to discourage claims based only on correlations, anecdotes or single studies.

Narrowing the research-reporting gap requires better reporting, using visuals to a greater extent, and reaching out to different audiences, for example, through SnapChat.